My last name is Robertson, and Im a COC member...but no relation or connection to duck commander. I do get friend requests on facebook from people all over the country because they see my last name and some duck pics I have posted though.

Question: around here (KS) all COC are non-instrumental music services. Is it that way all over the country?

sarjrr wrote:My last name is Robertson, and Im a COC member...but no relation or connection to duck commander. I do get friend requests on facebook from people all over the country because they see my last name and some duck pics I have posted though.

Question: around here (KS) all COC are non-instrumental music services. Is it that way all over the country?

Around here in Central Ky its a mixture of both. My soon to be wife was raised in a COC with instruments, but I wasnt. It seems that the big COC are more liberal and have instruments as with the small COC they are more conserviative! But thats anywhere really.

Fowlmouth Hustle wrote:When did being a part of a particular denomination become more important than just being a "Christian?" Just wondering... No offense guys but could we be missing something here?

1 Corinthians 1:10

Sorry for taking a while to reply, I've been trying to find the right words.

1 Corinthians 1:10 wrote:I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Sadly, Paul's plea for the Christians to stay united has been ignored over the years since this was written. Those divisions are our current day denominations.

I don't think that this should be taken in offense to anyone who is not a memeber of the Church of Christ. The OP was just looking for persons of like faith, or belief if that is a better term, because we do have different views.

Fowlmouth Hustle wrote:When did being a part of a particular denomination become more important than just being a "Christian?" Just wondering... No offense guys but could we be missing something here?

1 Corinthians 1:10

Sorry for taking a while to reply, I've been trying to find the right words.

1 Corinthians 1:10 wrote:I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Sadly, Paul's plea for the Christians to stay united has been ignored over the years since this was written. Those divisions are our current day denominations.

I don't think that this should be taken in offense to anyone who is not a memeber of the Church of Christ. The OP was just looking for persons of like faith, or belief if that is a better term, because we do have different views.

Well said. And I maybe should have qualified my original response a little better. The point that I'm trying to make is that the the church today has placed way to much emphasis on religion. Now I'm not against denominations by any stretch of the imagination (I'm a part of one) but I think that we all have the tendency to lose sight of the big picture when we're no longer making the "Main Thing" (Jesus) THE main thing. Denominations, more often than not can be mechanisms that bring division within the Body of Christ. Kinda like saying, "Well I'm a Baptist" or "Im a Lutheran" all because my dad was one and his dads dad was and so on. Jesus said in Mark 7:13 (read it) that because of traditions of man (religion) which you have handed down, that you make the word of God of no effect. Now for me, that verse raises the question "What could possibly make the word of God or the cross of Christ of no effect?" Something to think about. One last thing then I'm through...when Jesus asked his disciples in Mark 16 "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?", Peter said "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."The Jesus goes on to say that flesh and blood didn't reveal that to Peter, but by God the Father. Peter told the TRUTH about who Jesus was despite what "man" said about Him. In verse 18 Jesus says "you are Peter (no longer Simon Peter), and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." So the main point that I'm trying to make is that the revelation that Peter received about Jesus should be the churches main focus, not so much on denominations. That revelation is what brings unity to the body of Christ , not division. That is what separates the people who just dress up on Sunday from the people who are kingdom builders.